ON OUR OWN CLOCK Our Own Clock LP

OPAKOWANIE: GATEFOLD

Dźwiękowy testament przenikliwej i opartej na współpracy kreatywności, która sięga do warstw południowoafrykańskiego jazzu, tradycyjnej senegalskiej muzyki instrumentalnej i bogatej muzykalności Londynu inspirowanej diasporą.

Pierwotny plan zakładał, że muzycy z RPA i Senegalu pojadą do wpływowego londyńskiego Total Refreshment Centre, aby nagrać album z przyjaciółmi z Wielkiej Brytanii. Covid pokrzyżował scenariusze- płyta powstawał zatem w komunikacji on-line.

Wśród kiklunastu muzyków tworzących projekt są m.in. Alabaster dePlume, Theon Cross - legenda tuby, Danalogue z The Comet Is Coming, wirtuozi z RPA: Siya Makuzeni (SPAZA), Zoe Molelekwa i Asher Gamedze, mistrz kory z Senegalu - Tarang Cissoko i Yahael Camara Onono z Balimaya Project. Wspólnie wznieśli swój indywidualny geniusz w album, który jest ciepły, pełen mocnych groove'ów i przesiąknięty momentami refleksyjnej transcendencji.

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Pre-pandemic, there was a plan. The plan was for musicians from South Africa and Senegal to travel to London’s influential Total Refreshment Centre to make an album with musical kindred spirits in the UK. Like so many plans, it had to be adapted.

In the first heatwave summer of Covid, groups of heavy-hitting musicians met for a day of intense recording in their home cities then sent the music to their compadres across the oceans. They returned to the studio a month later to respond to the music they’d been sent. The result is ‘On Our Own Clock’, a sonic testament to trenchant and collaborative creativity which digs into layers of South African jazz, traditional Senegalese instrumental music and London’s rich diaspora-informed musicality. Individually these are powerful strands of music. Collectively, they are super-sized.

The 14 players are individually stellar and include tuba don Theon Cross; Alabaster dePlume, whose album ‘To Cy & Lee’ has been a pandemic panacea to so many people (including Bon Iver, who sampled it); top South African players including Siya Makuzeni (SPAZA), Zoe Molelekwa and Asher Gamedze, who appears on Angel Bat Dawid’s critically-acclaimed ‘The Oracle’ and whose debut album, ‘Dialectic Soul’, received universal acclaim upon its release in 2020; The Comet Is Coming’s Danalogue; Senegal’s highlyrespected Kora player, Tarang Cissoko as well as Balimaya Project’s Yahael Camara Onono. Collectively they’ve ascended their individual brilliance into an album that is variously warm and layered, full of tuff grooves, and steeped in moments of reflective transcendence.

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For fans of Electronic, Jazz, Hip Hop, Rap, Nu Jazz, Alabaster dePlume, Theon Cross, Asher Gamedze, SPAZA, The Comet Is Coming, Soccer ’96, Roots Manuva, Georgia Anne Muldrow

A2. BE THE LIGHT
A3. CUTS AND PIECES
A4. NGIKHETHILE
A5. GOOD ARE GOOD
B1. HOW TO MAKE ART IN A PANDEMIC [PART 2]
B2. 808 O’CLOCK
B3. DUNE DANCE
B4. HOW TO MAKE ART IN A PANDEMIC [PART 3]
B5. (TELL THE GODS) WE STILL BUILDING
B6. REVELATION